Benchmark Tours

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Holiday Tours:

1 or 2 Day Adventure Holiday Air Tours

Our short one or two day holiday tours from Melbourne visit places like Flinders Island, Milawa Winery for lunch, King Island Tours, Echuca and paddle steamer experience, Mallacoota, Mungo, Mt Hotham ski fields, Temora Air Museum, Birdsville Races etc. If you are a golf enthusiast, our 1 and two day golf tours to Cape Wickham King Island, Barnbougle TAS or Merimbula may be of interest.

Taste the Outback, Lake Eyre-Birdsville-Flinders Ranges tour

These 3 or 4 day “Taste of the Outback” air tours are stunning. They include Innamincka, the Dig Tree, Cooper’s Creek, the iconic Birdsville Hotel, Lake Eyre, Muloorina cattle station and Arkaroola in the Flinders Ranges. The map to the right is the extended 4 day tour which includes Mungo and Broken Hill. This has been our most popular “life experience” tour in the last 3 – 4 years See 3 and 4 day tours.Short 1 and 2 day tours to Lake Eyre. You may like to see the latest water levels in Lake Eyre.

Tasmania , Flinders and King Islands tours

These 4 day adventure tours from Melbourne include a tour of Flinders Island, a wilderness steam train trip from Queenstown to Strahan and the Gordon River cruise . The third night is at King Island and includes a tour of the island…. the home of cheese. See our Tasmania tours

South Australia Discovered-Kangaroo Island and Gawler or Flinders Ranges tours

You have a choice of 3, 4 or 5 day air adventure tours from Melbourne. The 3 day options allow you to concentrate on one location either Kangaroo Island or Arkaroola. The longer tours have two days on Kangaroo Island and then either one day in the Flinders Ranges at Parachilna (4 day tour) or two days in the Gawler Ranges including Kangaluna Bush safari camp and Lake Gairdner (5 day tour). See Kangaroo Island, Flinders and Gawler Ranges tours

Cape York Tour

This 12 day air tour takes you up to the tip of Australia. Destinations on the way include Birdsville, Adels Grove, Horn & Thursday Islands, Lotus Bird Lodge, Laura rock art, Bloomfield Lodge in the Daintree rain forrest and the ancient and spectacular limestone Carnarvon Gorge. See Cape York tour details

Kimberley and Top End Tour

Is the Kimberley on your bucket list? If so this 14 day Australian holiday air tour samples the Kimberley and Top End. Flying from Melbourne across Australia’s centre visit places like Ayers Rock, Coober Pedy, Broome, Cape Leveque, The Bungles, Faraway Bay, King George Falls, Mt Borradaile (Australia’s best Aboriginal rock art, and the famous Birdsville pub plus more. See Kimberley tour details

Luxury Lodge Series

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Lord Howe Island Tour

This 6 day air tour takes in one of Australia’s own secluded remote pristine Islands in the Middle of the South Pacific Ocean. You board your own personal executive aircraft which is ordinarily reserved for celebrities and dignitaries and for very special people like yourself. Spend 1 night in the Hunter Valley with tours through the region sampling some of the wines. Then onto Lord Howe Island for four fabulous nights at a Luxury Lodge… . See Lord Howe Island tour details

Southern Luxury Lodges Loop Air Safari – Luxury Adventure Holiday

The luxury starts as soon as you board the Beechcraft Super King Air, an exclusive twin turbine pressurised aircraft that will take you to some of the best upmarket glamping and luxury lodge destinations in South Australia and Tasmania.The next 9 days includes Arkaba Station, Gawler Ranges Wilderness Safari’s Kangaluna Camp, Southern Ocean Lodge perched on a dramatic cliff top above the wild Southern Ocean and Saffire Freycinet Luxury Lodge in Tasmania. 4WD excursions, mountain biking, wildlife viewing, sea lion experience, Lake Gairdner… and much more.

North West Luxury Lodges Air Safari – Luxury adventure holiday

13 days of luxury starts as soon as you step on board your aircraft. Departing Melbourne you’ll head for Longitude 131 at Ayers Rock. We then head for Bamarru Plains, a WildBush Luxury destination east of Darwin, followed by more luxury lodgings at Berkeley River Lodge in Western Australia. Not to be outdone, you will fly from Berkeley to Kimberley Coastal Bush Camp, an exclusive retreat in the Top End, with a maximum of 12 guests at any given time. After exploring the Kimberley Coast, you will be staying in an incredibly isolated yet stunning location on Ningaloo Reef, at the stunning Sal Salis – ‘glamping’ in wilderness tents. From Ningaloo to Kangaroo Island… our luxury lodge experience continues at the Southern Ocean Lodge with breathtaking coastal panoramas.

African Air Safari

Remote African Air Safari – Luxury Adventure Holiday

Remote Namibia Itinerary The air safari flights are private and you have exclusive use of the same aircraft throughout the tour. This 15 day escorted group air tour takes in remote areas of Namibia. We’ve teamed up with African Tour Specialists, who have built a reputation over the years for offering the best in travel to Africa. From luxury lodges and resorts to bush camps and tents in the most spectacular national parks in the world, you will experience what Africa has to offer – stunning natural beauty, magnificent animals, cultural interest, adventure and hospitality.